Databricks Engineer

Signify Technology; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Signify Technology is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract in the United States. You will own a Databricks-based analytics stack, turning platform data into trusted models, reporting and AI-assisted analytics with a small autonomous team.

Design and maintain a star-schema warehouse, build and scale dbt pipelines, and develop a semantic layer that serves BI and AI analytics. You will collaborate across product and operations, ensure CI/CD and data quality, and work with AWS data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Hands-on Databricks experience with Delta Lake.
• Production dbt experience at scale.
• Advanced SQL and Python.
• Dimensional modelling and star schema warehouse design.
• Experience with AWS data services.
• CI/CD and testing practices for data pipelines.
• Clear communicator capable of owning work in a startup setting.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain a star-schema warehouse and lakehouse in Databricks.
• Build and scale dbt pipelines, covering models, tests and source management.
• Develop a semantic layer that serves both BI and AI-driven analytics.
• Tune pipeline performance and control compute cost. Own CI/CD for the data platform, including automated data-quality and dashboard validation and promotion from Dev to Staging to Production.
• Bring in data from internal services and customer systems on AWS.
• Work with product, operations and leadership to turn business questions into dependable data products.
• Set data engineering standards and mentor teammates as the team grows.

Skills

Data engineering experience

Databricks

Delta Lake

dbt

SQL

Python

Star schema

AWS

CI/CD

Data testing

Communication

Job description

The Company

US healthcare technology company that has spent the last decade building software for hospitals and their medical device suppliers. Their platform takes manual, paper heavy steps out of how products are sourced, tracked and paid for around surgical procedures. They have recently raised new capital to expand the team.

Job title: Senior Data Engineer

Job type: Contract

Contract Length: 12 months

Rate: $60-70 per hour

Role Location: United States

Role & Responsibilities

They are investing in their data platform and need a Senior Data Engineer to take ownership of a Databricks-based analytics stack. You will join a small team with a lot of autonomy and visibility, turning platform data into trusted models, reporting and AI-assisted analytics for customers and internal teams. This is greenfield ownership of a modern stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain a star-schema warehouse and lakehouse in Databricks
• Build and scale dbt pipelines, covering models, tests and source management
• Develop a semantic layer that serves both BI and AI-driven analytics
• Tune pipeline performance and control compute cost Own CI/CD for the data platform, including automated data-quality and dashboard validation and promotion from Dev to Staging to Production
• Bring in data from internal services and customer systems on AWS
• Work with product, operations and leadership to turn business questions into dependable data products
• Set data engineering standards and mentor teammates as the team grows

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering experience
• Strong hands-on Databricks experience (Delta Lake,
• Production dbt experience at scale
• Advanced SQL and Python
• Dimensional modelling and warehouse design (star schema)
• Experience with AWS data services
• CI/CD and testing practices for data pipelines
• Clear communicator who is comfortable owning work in a startup setting

Preferred Experience

• Experience with BI or semantic layer tools such as Looker or similar
• Exposure to AI/LLM-driven analytics or natural-language querying
• Background in healthcare, medtech, supply chain or B2B SaaS
• Familiarity with HIPAA and healthcare data security

Accessibility Statement

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